Summoning Whitman, Yeats and Holmes to revive America's democratic spirit

Summoning Whitman, Yeats and Holmes to revive America's democratic spirit

The preservation of our constitutional system rests on three foundational predicates: government has only that power granted to it by the Constitution, governmental officials will obey the Constitution and the laws of the United States, and the judiciary is the final arbiter of the meaning of the Constitution. In the past week, President Donald Trump has broken ranks with the historical practice...